>>212290789 (OP)White right-wingers today often come off as too techno-conscious for their own good—hyper-fixated on surveillance, AI, and digital systems not out of principle, but as a reaction to their loss of cultural power. Their fear of modernity stems less from moral conviction and more from resentment toward a society they feel abandoned them. Ironically, this same group once proudly championed civilization, industry, and technological progress. Their current retreat often reads less like wisdom and more like sour grapes—a disillusioned withdrawal from tools they no longer control, rather than a coherent rejection of modern life.
Where they once built and stewarded the very infrastructure of the modern West—railroads, city grids, mass communication, aerospace—they now speak of these same systems with suspicion, as if modernity itself has become a weapon turned against them. In doing so, they unconsciously confirm their own displacement: no longer shapers of the world, but passive observers lamenting its direction. Until they regain the will to engage modern systems on their own terms, they risk becoming irrelevant to the future they helped create.